The Predicament and Redemption of Motherhood in Chinese and Korean Movies Taking "Lost, Found" and "Missing" as Examples

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10.2991/iccessh-19.2019.281How to use a DOI?

Keywords

female film; motherhood; gentle mother; single-faced mother

Abstract

This study uses a feminist perspective to reflect on the predicament of motherhood/mother role in different social classes and cultural contexts in China and South Korea through the analysis of the mother role in “Lost, Found” and “Missing”, and further ponder over the redemption road of women in contemporary social culture. According to the changes of social and economic development and gender ideology, mother image is divided into four types: “gentle mother”, “scientific mother”, “single-faced mother” and “autonomous mother”. Based on this, two major kinds of mother role have been constructed in the films, and then explore the conflict between the four mother image values contained in it, and summarize it into the ubiquitous writing of the dilemma of different groups of mothers in modern society. The self-redemption and female mutual rescue presented in the film are not only the torture and reflection of mother's morality and survival predicament in the mainstream context, but also the imaginative performance index of women breaking the predicament, thus giving the film the symbolic value of contemporary social culture.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Lin Zhang
AU  - Yuzhen Guo
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DA  - 2019/07
TI  - The Predicament and Redemption of Motherhood in Chinese and Korean Movies Taking "Lost, Found" and "Missing" as Examples
BT  - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Contemporary Education, Social Sciences and Humanities (ICCESSH 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
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EP  - 1277
SN  - 2352-5398
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